harbors

[lynchmob]

Alright, my frustration level is HIGH! I know there is a simple answer out there...
I'm playing Civ3 as a returner who hasn't played Civ2 in a few years. I cannot get harbors or galleys. I have mapmaking, I am in the middle ages. I have coastal cities and lots of happy people. The only galley I've been able to build was in a city I captured. The civlopedia and manual are USELESS. (I will offer to write and index the next one for them...)
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I need ships!

 

[Ackrite99]

Check your tech-tree in the science advisor - do you have sea-faring?

 

[Astral]

maybe your cities are not actually at the cost. I've experienced that a city of mine had a coast square directly east of it, but land to the northeast and southeast. It was not treated as a coastal city as in Civ2.... Even though ships could actually dock into the city....maybe a bug, or just my imagination, but I do believe it is true...

 

[bsklepzig]

Originally posted by Ackrite99
Check your tech-tree in the science advisor - do you have sea-faring?

Maybe he's thinking of Magnetism? Sea-Faring isn't a tech in Civ3. Anyway, Magnetism doesn't affect the ability to build Galleys. It allows you to build Galleons and Frigates that can travel ocean squares.

I suspect that he is too far inland. My coastal cities have 3-4.5 water squares. Building Galleys or harbors or other naval vessels isn't complex. Once I have the required techs (mapmaking for Galleys, I believe), it shows up in the allowable units I can build. (Usually in between my ground units and the city buildings on the list, if I recall.) Since he could build a Galley in the captured city, but not in his cities, I'd suggest he look carefully at the city placement. Apologies if this is too basic, but the dotted line city-limits (9 squares when the city is founded) don't count. The actual cluster of buildings in the center of the founded city must be on the coast (hence the high number of water squares mentioned above).

Ben

 

[lynchmob]

The problem was not having the cities close enough to the water. Apparently I must have them only 1 square off the coast. Thanks for all of your comments, I KNEW it was something extremely simple.... now to war...